Entente reads German plans to reassert in Eastern Front
Reports from Washington indicate German aims to break with the Bolsheviks and push an army into Russia to fight Allied forces in the East. Diplomatic circles note German strategy to leverage Ukraine levies on southern Russian wheat and potential reestablishment of a line from Riga to the Dnieper as they seek to secure Bulgaria and influence Romania.
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Washington
Russia
East
Tadiay
von Mumm
Kieva
Ukraine
Moscow
Pekoff
Higa
Riga
Kharkov
Dneiper
Black Sea
Bulgaria
Rumania
Germany
Petrograd
Berlin
Somerstad Torpedoed Off Fire Island Sinking Angers Norway
The Norwegian government protests to Germany over the torpedoing of the Somerstad, a 2475 ton government cargo steamer. Ten crew members are missing, while US reports say all 30 were saved. Captain Hansen says the torpedo circled the ship before striking, fueling fears of a wireless torpedo.
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Germany
Somerstad
Christiania
Fire Island
United States
George Hansen
E Books Show Gain This Year
Utilities superintendent Thomas Murphine analyzes traction figures claiming no fare increase is needed to improve service and meet wage goals. His report notes 1915 earnings were the strongest in five years, with 1918 six month gains projected to exceed average by 3 percent. He disputes a $1,062,000 cost for better service and outlines three revenue options including a 7 cent fare.
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Car Men's Union
Thomas Murphine
Murphine
Morphine
PuBet Sound Traction Officials Salaries Compared
A report by Thomas Murphine of the city utilities department finds Pu Bet Sound Traction Light & Power Co pays officials $200000 yearly, versus Seattle city managerial costs of $112000. The traction firm handles $7 million in business with $60.9 million in property, while the city handles $19.5 million with about $500 million in property.
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Pu- Bet Sound Traction. Light & Power Co
Thomas Murphine
City Utilities Department
Murphine
Seattle
Traction Company
City transit plan backs war period duties and fare changes
Morphine urges adopting the third transit plan to suspend some franchise obligations during the war, cut a 6 cent fare plus 1 cent transfer, and boost one man cars. The report notes over 2,000,000 deadheads in 1917, about 40 percent city staff, and potential $70,000 annual extra revenue if restored. Skip stops and ending auto parking on First to Third avenues are also urged.
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Traction Company
Morphine
The Best Buys in Seattle in Homes and Autos
Seattle readers see top value listings for homes and autos on pages 10 and 11 in today’s Star. The feature highlights affordable properties and vehicles, with brief descriptions and prices to guide buyer choices.
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Seattle
Girl 15 Ends Life After Claiming No Love
Florence Ellen Hogan aged 15 died at 5:29 a m Saturday in city hospital from a self-inflicted revolver shot to the breast. She lived at 704 Ninth Ave and said she was lonely and unloved. Her mother Mrs Mary Hogan widow resides at Waldorf apartments Seventh Ave and Pike St. Florence worked four hours daily at a department store and was a junior at Broadway High School. She had previously threatened self harm.
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Florence Ellen Hogan
Ninth Ave
Mary Hogan
Waldorf Hotel
Seventh Ave
Pikest
City
Missa Taylor
Broadway
Florence
I W W Trial Goes to Jury in Chicago Sabotage Case
The I W W trial for sabotage and sedition went to the jury in Chicago as 99 defendants faced charges that 113 I W W leaders interfered with war work. The case drew nationwide interest since it began April 1.
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Chicago
I W. W
American Bombers Hit Conflans Depot in France
American bombing planes scored 18 direct hits on switching tracks and two on a roundhouse at Conflans in France yesterday afternoon. All returned safely despite constant anti air fire and several encounters with German planes.
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Armiees
France
Conflans
Altho
Planca
Gasoline and War Stamps Idea for Boosting Sales
A prominent citizen urges turning every gasoline station into a War Savings Stamps agent. He proposes that each $1 in gas purchases include a two-Bit stamp, arguing it could rapidly lift the national quota and make gasoline buyers steady contributors to a patriotic fund. The plan would tie fuel sales to war bond support.
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Uncle Sam
Whisky tax set at eight dollars a gallon in new proposal
Washington August 17 1930 The Ways and Means Committee tentatively approves an $8 per gallon tax on whisky and distilled liquors replacing the current $3.20 rate to raise funds toward an $8 billion goal. Other rates rise proportionally while specifics are withheld to avoid wartime tax evasion and interim legislation. An 80 percent excess profits tax with varied exemptions is also nearly adopted.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Treasury Department
Aviators Bomb Zeebrugge Base in Belgium
British aviators and the navy dropped 60 tons of bombs on Zeebrugge and related targets from August 7 to 15. The operation hit Ostend docks and Varsanaere air drome with fires observed, destroying 16 enemy aircraft and one captive balloon while forcing 15 more down out of control. A Zeppelin was reported bagged over the North Sea and a German destroyer received a direct bomb hit. Three British aircraft are missing.
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London
Zeebruggre
Belgium
Navy
British
Air Ministry
Jeebrugge
Ostend
Varsannaere
North Sea
A Thrift Stamp a Day Keeps the Hun Away
A light wartime public service line urges daily thrift stamp purchases to support the war effort. The phrase conveys home-front morale and citizen participation in funding military needs.
Czechs Capture Siberian Town
Washington reports Irkutsk has fallen to Czecho Slovak forces aided by Siberian troops. A government favorable to the Allies and favoring war with Germany is being organized, according to the department's announcements.
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Washington
Irkutsk
State Department
Germany
Bolsheviki Defeat Slovaks in Kazan Engagement
Amsterdam dispatch reports Soviet forces surrounding Kazan held by Czecho-Slovaks and bombarding the city. A Soviet army moving toward Onega has occupied Kierillovka while heavy fighting continues on the Don region front as Cossacks push north. Kazan sits on the Volga about 175000 residents 100 miles north of Simbirsk and 450 miles east of Moscow.
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Amsterdam
Kazan
Moscow
Onega
Russia
Kierillovka
Don
Volga
Simbiresk
Archduke Karl Stephen Named King of Poland
Berlin newspapers report a definite decision by the central powers that Archduke Karl Stephen will be king of Poland. The claim places a new royal claimant in the Polish throne amid ongoing European diplomacy.
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Copenhagen
Karl Stephen
Poland
Berlin
French Cruiser Dupetit Thouars Sunk After Torpedo Strike
The French cruiser Dupetit Thouars was torpedoed and sunk off Paris on August 17. Thirteen crew members died while American destroyers rescued the survivors. Commissioned in 1901, the 9517 ton armored cruiser measured 452 feet with a 540 man crew and carried two 7.6 inch guns along with multiple smaller guns and torpedo tubes.
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Paris
Dupetit Thouars
Mirlo Sunk Off Cape Hatteras By Suspected Torpedo
The British steamer Mirlo of 6,700 tons was sunk off Cape Hatteras, likely by a torpedo, the navy department reported. Nine crew members remained unlanded early today. The ship was believed to carry a cargo of gasoline.
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Washington
Cape Hatteras
Navy Department
Spain Warns Germany on U Boat Sinking Toll
London report says Spain warns Berlin that sinking more Spanish ships will trigger internment of German vessels in Spanish harbors as a reciprocal measure.
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Spain
London
Germany
Foreign Office
Kronstadt Seizure Rumor Reported by Finland
Paris Aug. 17 Rumors in Finland claim German forces have seized Kronstadt the Russian naval base in the Gulf of Finland A Stockholm dispatch notes Premier Lenin and War Minister Trotsky moved the Soviet government from Moscow to Kronstadt less than 25 miles from Petrograd
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Kronstadt
Finland
Paris
Gulf of Finland
Stockholm
Lenine
Trotsky
Moscow
Petrograd
236 Officers Executed in Kronstadt Counter Revolt
Amsterdam reports a Moscow dispatch stating that of about a thousand officers imprisoned at Kronstadt for counter revolutionary tendencies, 236 have been executed.
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Amsterdam
Kronstadt
Moscow
Explosion at Romanian shell depot kills over 100
Zurich dispatch reports an explosion at a Vastul shell depot in Romania killed more than 100 people and injured about 150. The blast is believed to have been caused by an accident or misfire.
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Zurich
Vastul
Romania
Bucharest
French Advance Around Roye In World War I Dispatch
Paris dispatch reports French forces at the gates of Roye after advancing south of the Avre River. They occupy key junctions near Montdidier and Estrees Denis and take St. Marc after fierce house to house fighting. Germans retreat behind Roye Lassigny road as camps near Car and Plessis de Roye are seized with prisoners and material captured.
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Paris
Roye
Avre
Montdidier-Estrees Dennis
St. Marc
Fofenses
Loges Wood
Roye-Lassigny
Camp de Car
French and British Tighten Crescent Against Germans in Picardy
Dispatch from Paris reports French and British forces advancing yard by yard through Picardy as Marshal Foch tightens positions around Lassigny and Roye. The crescent envelopment aims to push German troops from Lassigny while covering Noyon from the west and southwest as German evacuation appears imminent.
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Paris
Picardy
von Boehm
Lassigny
Marshal Foch
Roye
Chaulnes
An Noyon
de Plemont
Bois de Resreve
Mont Renaux
Noyon
British Gain in Flanders and Picardy
British forces on the western front advanced again on the edge of Flanders and near Roye and the Ancre. Patrols near Vieux Berquin saw sharp fighting with further encounters at night, and the press noted progress around Merris. Prisoners were taken as artillery activity persisted near Mount Rouge Scherpenberg and Zillebeke lake.
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Roye-Lassigny-Noyon
Roye and
Lassigny
Noyon
Oise
Lassigny Heights
Ancre
Albert
Roye Somme
Flanders
Vieux-Berquin
Merris
Russia
Kazan
Volga
Onega
London
Haig
Roye
Vieux Berquin
French and U. S. Men Sink 2 Subs
Paris reports President Poincare witnessed an American convoy debarkation and was informed that two German submarines had been sunk. One by a French vessel and the other by American forces. After debarkation he visited American camps.
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Paris
Poincare
Poincarel
Vesle Front Action and Camp Taylor Commissions
Night fighting along the Vesle river intensifies as German bombardment and Allied counterfire continue for hours. Air forces target Aisne bridges while traffic along the Aisne shows heavy movement toward the south. In Louisville, nearly 2,000 student soldiers are commissioned as second lieutenants at Camp Taylor graduation with Maj. William Snow delivering the address.
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France
Vesle
Aisne
Louisville
Camp Taylor
Wm. Snow
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Eanee
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Siberian
Stephen
John DE Gandt
United Press
The
Star
Dispatch
Webb Miller
U. S
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